Behind me a door quietly opened, and I stiffened, but it was just the little horse coming in, and behind him the goat, and the cat leaped up on the tin countertop by the stove, and I was glad the villagers had come all that way through the snow to see me, glad they'd been alarmed by me, because I must be something rare, a true student of the headwaiter, Mr Skrivanek, who served the King of England, and I had the honor to serve the Emperor of Ethiopia, who decorated me for all time with his medal, and the medal gave me strength to write this story out for readers, this story of how the unbelievable came true.